Thoughts on change

[getojack]

I gave a woman in gray 30 pieces of paper and got a travel pass in return. And her phone number.

I gave a man at a store a one and 3 nothings and got a drink of water and 3 coins in return.

I bought 3 books of nothing with 3 pieces of one and 3 nothings and got 3 coins and 3 books of nothing.

Adding the 3 coins to the 7 coins I had in my pocket, I end up with a one and 3 nothings.

I gave a woman in a park a smile and some conversation and the sun shone brightly and the clouds went away. She left and the day became gray again.

I gave a man in a park a smile and some conversation and got an energy drink in return. And he got on TV.

Three women showed me the path of everlasting life and the path of death and rebirth.

This world of change is the dark reflection of the truth of no change.

Three coins showed me the path of everlasting life and the path of death and rebirth.

 

[dobro p]

I doubt it was the three coins that showed you that. I mean, those same three coins (if you're talking about Yi consultation coins) don't show most people anything near as dramatic. I think it would be more accurate to say that a perception of "the path of everlasting life and the path of death and rebirth" arose in your own mind as a result of your experience with the three coins.

I also think it's interesting that while a ton of posters here ask questions about relationship that would be better solved by actually asking the same question of the person they're enquiring about, your use of the oracle produces insights on a cosmic scale. Are you sure you wouldn't rather ask about a girlfriend?

 

[getojack]

Yeah, I guess I meant the 3 coins in a sense of cosmic change as well as change in a mundane sense. I think the oracle speaks to us through the external world, at least that's my experience. So if you want to look for answers, you can either look in the I Ching or just look around you.

 

[dobro p]

"I think the oracle speaks to us through the external world, at least that's my experience."

That's one of two main possibilities. The other one is that the oracle speaks to us through our inner world. Some would say that the oracle is actually the voice of the inner which some of us can't hear in any way other than by using an oracle.

"So if you want to look for answers, you can either look in the I Ching or just look around you."

Or inside you.

 

[getojack]

Right-o. According to various translations of the I Ching, The first line of the hexagram represents the outer reality and the last line represents the inner reality. So the hexagrams combine inner and outer reality.

 

[lightofreason]

The path 'up' a hexagram favours the notion of vague to crisp, raw to refined. The SAME notions apply to trigram interpretations as it does to digram interpretations. Since the expression is made within a context so the bottom part is context, the top part text (be it hex, or tri, or di interpretations).

Context can be (a) them or (b) me so it is the question that 'shapes' things. In IC+ questions the focus is on the bottom line being vague and covering the distinctions of values/facts. WITHIN that operates a temporal focus on what was/is/will-be vs what could-have-been/is-not/could be. WITHIN that operates the proactive/reactive dichotomy. THAT format gives you a trigram of context/inner. Asks the same questions again but focused on text/outer to give the whole hexagram.

One form of interpretation is of inner/outer but the outer is in reverse order and so 'up against' the inner. E.g. 011100 is a wind inner up against a mountain outer (rather than a thunder outer). This is an 'oppositional' perspective. OTOH 011100 can cover thunder operating within a context of wind (or thunder emerging from etc)

Chris.